Annotation:Getting Up the Stairs

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X:1 T:Getting up the Stairs N:From the playing of fiddler Clyde Davenport (Ky.) N:Davenport (b. 1921) was born in Blue Hole Hollow, near Mt. Pisgah on the N:Cumberland Plateau in south-central Kentucky, not far from the border with N:Tennessee. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:AEae or GDgd tuning (fiddle) Q:"Quick." D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/getting-stairs D:Field Recorders Collective FRC 104, "Clyde Davenport, vol. 2" (2005) Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A |:{B}ABcd efed|cABG [A,3E3]A-|c(ABA) A2AA|c(ABA) [A,3E3]A| c(ABA) A2AA|1c(ABA) [A,4E4]:|2c(ABA) A2 AA|{B}ABcd efed| cABG [A,4E4]||:ABcd e4|e(fae) fedf|edcA d2[df]d| e2 ef afed||1cABA A2A2:|2cABG [A,4E4]||

GETTING UP THE STAIRS. American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Some similarities to Edden Hammond's "Sugar in the Gourd."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -Clyde Davenport (b. 1921, Wayne County, Ky.) [Milliner & Koken].

Printed sources : - Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 235.

Recorded sources: -County Records 786, Clyde Davenport - "Gettin' Up The Stairs: Traditional Music From The Cumberland Plateau Volume 1" (1986). Field Recorders Collective, FRC104 - "Clyde Davenport, Vol. 2" (2005).

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